Christopher Koegel

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I am the Director of Financial Practices, Privacy and Cybersecurity in the Federal Regulatory Affairs Group at T-Mobile. In that capacity, I am responsible for representing T-Mobile on a range of federal regulatory matters, with a specific focus on financial services and mobile payments/commerce issues, as well as privacy and cybersecurity issues.



Before joining T-Mobile, I was an Assistant Director in the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Financial Practices, with a particular focus on debt collection and FTC Act litigation. In that position, I managed enforcement and policy work relating to debt collection, debt relief, short-term lending, and other consumer protection issues arising in the financial sector. I was the primary architect of the FTC’s enforcement policy statement regarding the collection of decedents’ debts. And I have been a frequent speaker at conferences and in the media on debt collection and other consumer financial issues.



At Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, I advised clients regarding the development, approval, and substantiation of advertising claims, and represented a number of clients in false advertising disputes brought under the Lanham Act and similar state laws, as well as in FTC enforcement actions. I also have been involved in a number of cases involving the enforcement of consumer arbitration clauses containing class-action waivers.



Specialties: FTC law, debt collection law, consumer-credit litigation, commercial litigation